Material Handling Equipment

A bucket elevator has buckets spaced at pitch $s = 0.25\text{ m}$ along the belt. Each bucket has struck volume $V_b = 2.0\text{ liters}$ ($0.002\text{ m}^3$). If the belt travels at speed $v = 1.5\text{ m/s}$, buckets discharged per second is $v / s = 1.5 / 0.25 = 6.0\text{ buckets/s}$. Volumetric discharge rate in liters per second (L/s) is: